Cleaner for spoons



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' Patented June 13,1893.

60%yess e e UNITED STATES I PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. MOULDER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLEANER FOR SPOONS, FORKS, 8w.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,467, dated June 13, 1893.

Application filed May 9, 1892. Serial No. 432,361. (No model.)

' To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES H. MOULDER, of

Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Clean ers for Spoons, Forks, &c., of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like letters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention in cleaners for spoons, forks, knives, &c., has for its object to provide a cleaner by which various kinds of articles, of different shape or curvature, may be easily and thoroughly cleaned.

The drawing represents in perspective, a cleaner embodying this invention.

The body A of the cleaner is of wood or other suitable material, it being provided with means, not shown, by which it may be firmly attached to a table or other support.

In the cleaner shown,the body is provided with two cleaning or rubbing grooves a, a, preferablyextending the entire length of the body to provide long rubbing surfaces,the surface of the body and its grooves being covered with a thick layer b of soft rubber to provide a better rubbing surface for the articles to be cleaned.

The cleaner is preferably provided with a receptacle 0 placed at one end of the flat rubbing surface 0. the receptacle to receive the cleaning powder, which for the best results will be held by a moistened sponge. The bottom of the groove a is nearly or quite fiat to permit the back of a fork to be cleaned therein,whi1e the bottom of the groove 01, is curved or hollow to permit the back of a spoon to be rubbed and cleaned.

The cleaner is provided at one side with a rounded rubber coated ri-m d on the rounded upper edge of which the curved insides of forks, and the like may be cleaned, the rim being rounded down at one end, as at d to form a knob-like rounded surface on which to clean the hollow bowl of a spoon, the said end being preferably extended beyond the end of the cleaner as shown. A block e, represented as placed at one end of the rim (1, is provided with a series of slots e in which the tines of a fork may be cleaned, the said slots being lined with rubber, or for the most satisfactory results the block will consist of a solid piece of soft rubber in which the slots are out.

In use, the article to be cleaned will be supplied with cleaning powder and then rubbed back and forth on the cleaning surface presented by the cleaner, the flat faces of articles like knives being cleaned on the flat surface a the backs of spoons, a, in the groove a, the backs of forks in the groove 0., theinsides of the forks on the rim d, the tines of the forks in the slots e, and the bowls of spoons on the rounded knob-like surface 01.

I claim- Y The herein described cleaner for forks, spoons and the like consisting of the flat portion M, the flat-bottomed groove a, the curvedbottom groove a, the convex rim at having the knob-like end d, and the slotted forktine cleaner 6, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES H. MOULDER.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK L. EMERY, LOUIS N. GoWELL. 

